Hardy Cross

The Dream of the Rood is by an unknown, Anglo-Saxon, author. This ancient poem is about Jesus being crucified through the cross’ point of view. Although this poem is about Jesus’ death, it does not exactly match up with what the Bible has depicted in the Gospels of the New Testament. There is a culture clash between the Anglo-Saxon culture and beliefs and what the Bible thinks of Jesus during his crucifixion. In this poem the author expresses Christ as strong, heroic, and bold, but the Bible states

warrior: Then the young hero (who was God Almighty) Got ready, resolute and strong in heart. ...the warrior embraced [the cross]. Instead of simply using the word "Christ," the poet calls Jesus "the young hero" and "the warrior. The poet also presents a warrior-like image of Christ by portraying Jesus exuberantly preparing for combat rather than being lead passively to the cross. Where the Bible

written in the early middle ages. The poem describes Jesus Christ's death and burial in a way that is tastefully different from the original biblical accounts. The Dream of the Rood tells of the death of Jesus Christ from the vantage point of the cross, the cross that Christ was crucified on. The poems open up with the author describing the tree as an unwilling participant. “I was cut down at the wood's edge, taken from my stump. Strong foes seized me there, chopped me to the shape they wished to see

London. So that is exactly what he did. He bought a small house in Thaxtead and lived there for nearly a year, but much of his music was failing. In 1926, Holst was working in Dorset. He wrote a piece called Egdon Health dedicated to Thomas Hardy, and he knew it was the best thing he had

Tess and the Color Red For an artist as visually sensitive as Hardy, colour is of the first importance and significance, and there is one colour which literary catches the eye, and is meant to catch it, throughout the book. This colour is red, the colour of blood, which is associated with Tess from first to last. It dogs her, disturbs her, destroys her. She is full of it, she spills it, she loses it. Watching Tess' life we begin to see that her destiny is nothing more

An Essay on The Withered Arm, by Thomas Hardy ‘The past is a foreign country. They did things differently there.’ ‘The Go Between’ by L.P. Hartley. Thomas Hardy, a Victorian novelist, based his stories on experience of growing up in rural Dorset. Growing up there, he became familiar with the language, customs, practises and stories of the country folk. These stories draw up on his experiences enabling him to write ‘Wessex Tales’. Among many pieces of work is ‘The Withered Arm’. ‘The Withered

Relationships Between Men and Women in Thoms Hardy's Short Stories Thomas Hardy was born on June the 2nd, 1848, at Higher Brockhampton in Dorset, a little hamlet, a few miles from Dorchester. He soon moved to London to study architecture, writing poems and short stories in his spare time, eventually moving on to do full-time writing, abandoning architecture. Most of his stories are set in the imagined county of Wessex, which encompasses the counties, Dorset, Devon

The Hardy Boys series written by various authors, all under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon has been around for a very long time. Their first appearance was in 1927, and they have survived numerous reboots and reprints since then. Part of their charm, especially for kids, is that, unlike Sherlock Holmes and other popular detectives, they are teenagers. Like their readers, they have school, chores, and church on Sunday. This essay will focus, as far as plot is concerned on the first book The Tower

The novel describes, as Hardy explains in the Preface, the ‘deadly war waged between flesh and spirit’. In Jude one of the main targets is the institution of marriage. There is also a new dimension to the criticism in that Hardy, although very tentatively, suggests possible future alternatives to the existing social organization, alternatives that would make man’s psychological make-up less of a liability than at the present. Hardy shows very clearly that Jude’s intellectual ambitions are not hampered

William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Hamlet, and Thomas Hardy’s Mayor of Casterbridge each examine both the search for and the effects of justice. King Lear is a case study of a failed monarch and his remorse for not having been a better king. Hamlet tasks a teenage boy with avenging his father's death, prompting questions about morality and righteousness. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a man’s attempts to reconcile his shortcomings with what he feels is right. Tragically, in each of these works the search